Russian cult leader linked to human and drug trafficking arrested in Argentina
Konstantin Rudnev was attempting to board a flight from Bariloche to Buenos Aires accompanied by six women
Doctors at the hospital in Bariloche, a paradisiacal Argentinean city at the foot of the Patagonian Andes, were struck by the odd demeanor of a 22-year-old Russian woman who showed up at the emergency room ready to give birth. She was accompanied by two women, also Russian, who became very nervous when asked about their relationship. The pregnant woman did not speak and looked frightened. The doctors immediately reported a possible case of human trafficking. But there was much more to it than that. The police looked into the women and found ties to the Ashram Shambala sect, founded in the 1990s in Russia by Konstantin Rudnev. Rudnev was behind the pregnancy.
